Episodios

  • Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize

    Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize
    May 13 2025
    UAW founder Walter Reuther was famous, his brother Roy wasn’t, but he made important contributions to both the labor and civil rights movements. Roy’s son, Alan joins us this week […] The post Alan Reuther: From Flint to Selma: How Roy Reuther Shaped Labor & Civil Rights in America and Bert Nash Mental Health Workers Organize appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 h
  • Social Security Workers Speak Out

    Social Security Workers Speak Out
    May 6 2025
    Former Commissioner Martin O’Malley says Social Security could collapse within just a few months. Social Security workers report bedlam at work, and their union leader Everett Kelley says Elon Musk […] The post Social Security Workers Speak Out appeared first on KKFI.
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    1 h
  • HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power

    HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power
    Apr 30 2025
    It’s May Day and this week the Heartland Labor Forum is celebrating International Workers Day with songs to raise the spirit, an interview from 1997 with Studs Terkel on the […] The post HLF-May1-2025-May Day! – Songs, History, and Rants to Celebrate Worker Power appeared first on KKFI.
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  • Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn

    Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn
    Apr 25 2025
    What do you do when the head of state comes after your union with 6,000 cops and a license to kill? We’ll get advice from John Dunne who had his […] The post Remembering the British Miners’ Strike after 40 Years with Miner John Dunn appeared first on KKFI.
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  • Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Ger

    Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Ger
    Apr 15 2025
    We see their work everywhere: big cities, small towns, schools, tall and short buildings. These craftsmen are bricklayers and masons. Many can be called artists. This week on the Heartland […] The post Labor Leader Series: Dustin Himes from Bricklayers & Allied Craftsworkers Local 15 and Rep Tobias Schlingensiepen: Fighting Fascism from Germany to KS appeared first on KKFI.
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  • How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Crimina

    How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Crimina
    Apr 8 2025
    The surest way to defeat a union is to create division within it. Many in management excel at pitting workers against each other, but this week we’ll talk with organizers […] The post How Do We Overcome Internal Division in Unions? and Beneath REI’s Green Sheen: Union Busting, Debt Bondage, and Partnership with Eco-Criminals appeared first on KKFI.
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    59 m
  • Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

    Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    Mar 31 2025
    Right after he became President Trump marked another milestone on the trail of broken promises when he cut funding for Haskell Indian Nation’s University in Lawrence, crippling its teaching capacity […] The post Layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University: Treaty Violation? And Property Tax Reform: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly appeared first on KKFI.
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  • Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier

    Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier
    Mar 27 2025
    We’ll interview labor historian Jeff Stilley about Kansas City’s greatest labor champion you never heard of — Frank Walsh, labor lawyer, defender of radicals and visionary for future labor law. […] The post Why Has America’s Greatest Labor Progressive: Frank P. Walsh Been Forgotten? and The School District Bond Issue with Dr. Jennifer Collier appeared first on KKFI.
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    59 m
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